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A Search for Home: Navigating Change in Battlestar Galactica

Yost, Kimberly S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1347903521

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2012, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
This dissertation explores the various ways in which the multiple leaders portrayed in the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) navigate extreme conditions of continual change. In addition, the dissertation contains a discussion of the larger narrative themes of love, forgiveness, redemption, and embracing the Other as principles effective leaders must cultivate. Through an interpretation of this specific popular media text, a deeper emotional sensitivity to and understanding of leadership, positive and negative, during extreme crises is gained. Furthermore, the series serves as a vehicle through which viewers can reflect on and engage in their own self-awareness about issues surrounding leadership and reconsider personal paradigms based on the depiction presented in the narrative. The choice for using an interpretive hermeneutic method for this dissertation comes from the specific desire to understand the visual text of Battlestar Galactica in relation to leadership studies. The goal is neither to predict behaviors nor to examine an individual case against theory. My intent is to develop our further and deeper understanding of leadership in extremis, while questioning how the visual text may influence our perceptions of leadership theory and practice. The electronic version of this dissertation is at OhioLink ETD Center, www.ohiolink.edu/etd
Carolyn Kenny, PhD (Committee Chair)
Lize Booysen, DBL (Committee Member)
Holly Baumgartner, PhD (Committee Member)
Kristin Bezio, PhD (Other)
255 p.
Management; Mass Media; Motion Pictures; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior; Personal Relationships; Religion; Social Structure; Spirituality
crisis leadership; charismatic religious leadership; emergent leadership; shared leadership; science fiction; television; Battlestar Galactica; love; forgiveness; redemption; otherness; home; interpretive hermeneutics; popular culture

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  • Yost, K. S. (2012). A Search for Home: Navigating Change in Battlestar Galactica [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1347903521

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yost, Kimberly. A Search for Home: Navigating Change in Battlestar Galactica. 2012. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1347903521.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yost, Kimberly. "A Search for Home: Navigating Change in Battlestar Galactica." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1347903521

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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